INTERVIEWER: You don't even like being called Auntie though, do you? EILEEN: No I don't. INTERVIEWER: You don't like these family names. EILEEN: No. The problem is with my name. Auntie Eileen just sounds... I don't like the sound of it together. LORRAINE: It sounds older doesn't it than you are. EILEEN: Yes. Yes. LORRAINE: That's the thing as well. INTERVIEWER: You always wished you'd been given another name. I don't think I've met anybody who didn't... y'know cos you said you've got a different name. PAM: Yeh but I've never been called it. INTERVIEWER: Never used it. PAM: I've never been called Joan. Ever. EILEEN: Ah right. Well my mum said they wondered about called me April because I was born in April. Which would have been nice. So then they called me Eileen [laughter] LORRAINE: Do you know, parents! They're really cruel aren't they? EILEEN: But then I would have been April Worthington and then there's another April Worthington in the village. GILL: Yeh absolutely. EILEEN: But Eileen is a name which is very fixed to me in time. It fixes people who were born like me in the fifties. Any other Eileen I've ever met is always the same age as me and you never come across any older ones or ever any younger ones.
